Friday night was our neighborhood's annual fall festival. Hayrides, a band, carnival rides, chili, beer... it's basically restitution for the 5 bagillion dollars we pay every month in property taxes and I had been looking forward to it all week. We were just finishing packing up the cooler when Ellie threw the Mother Tantrum - face down, screaming, kicking, telling me to go ...

WARNING: A LOT OF BOOBY TALK BELOW. NO LIFEGUARD ON DUTY - SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK:
So I think I'm going to abandon ship on the breastfeeding. I know, I know - it was going so well. That is until last week when I started experiencing toe curling, feet sweating, head spinning, profanity spewing pain every time Lila latched on to my left boob.
It continued to get worse and ...

Second babies have a big advantage in that parents have nine months to obsess over all of the mistakes they made with the first baby and develop a well-formed plan to ensure they don't screw it up like they did the first one.One of the 67 things I have on my list of "Things Not To Screw Up With The Next Baby" is breastfeeding. I really had no idea what to expect when I tried to ...